7:09 AM ET The Premier League has revealed the official match ball that will be used to play out the remainder of the 2020-21 season. With just a few months of the campaign left to play, the new Nike Flight will be used across all games from Friday, Feb. 19 — starting with Leeds United‘s
7:01 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Now that Phil Mickelson is not eligible for a World Golf Championship, he’ll go for a hat trick with the seniors. The PGA Tour Champions says Mickelson is set to play the Cologuard Classic next week in Tucson, Arizona, where 30 years ago he became the last
4:28 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The extreme speed of Melbourne Park’s courts have been the talk of the 2021 Australian Open. Dominic Thiem, a finalist last year, called the terrain this year “the fastest Grand Slam courts I have ever played on.” Jim Courier, a two-time champion of the tournament, likened the surface here
5:57 PM GMT France scrum-half and star player Antoine Dupont is set to miss his side’s Six Nations game against Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday. All the players in the 31-man squad had been tested and so far 11 had been negative, with Dupont the only one to return a positive test,
5:56 PM GMT Wales have called up prop WillGriff John to their Six Nations squad to replace the injured Dillon Lewis, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) announced on Friday. Lewis will miss the rest of the Six Nations campaign after sustaining a neck injury. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Sale Sharks’ John, 28,
4:54 AM ET Ash Barty will look to rebound from her Australian Open quarterfinal loss at next week’s Adelaide International. The world No. 1 has made the surprise decision to defend the title she won in the South Australian capital last year. “I am looking forward to coming back to Adelaide and having the opportunity
2:00 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona is recovering from another health scare. After missing most of last season with medical issues, Francona recently underwent surgery to remove a staph infection in his left big toe, the latest medical setback for the two-time World Series winner. The 61-year-old Francona spent 10
3:23 AM ET Ten days ago, a brutal loss to the Detroit Pistons forced the Brooklyn Nets to refocus. Since then, the Nets have been a riding a wave of wins, the latest a 109-98 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night. Brooklyn has taken a step toward solving its defensive puzzle and
9:00 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Former NFL receiver Vincent Jackson might have died in his Florida hotel room up to three days before being pronounced dead there, according to new information released by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner on Thursday. Jackson, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver, was found
2:48 PM ET A UFC fighter missed weight Friday by a record amount. Rafael Alves weighed in at 157.5 pounds for a scheduled featherweight bout against Patrick Sabatini. The limit for a non-title featherweight fight in MMA is 146 pounds, so Alves weighed 11.5 pounds over the contracted mark. It was the biggest weight miss